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welcome wherever you're catching the program from today our top story. italy's prime minister say's rome will have to make its own decision on whether to use russia's sputnik kneejerk if it's not approved by the european medicines agency governments right across the e.u. are seeking solutions really after a series of setbacks in the blocks covert vaccine rolled out or europe correspondent peter all of our picks up the story mario draghi he's not been long in the job as a tally in prime minister but he's already leading a country that's got an uneasy sense of deja vu at the moment when it comes to covert 19 it was just over a year ago that italy was at the very tip of the spear when it came to the coronavirus of driving up and now we're seeing intensive care beds in italy filling up at an alarming rate as fears of a 3rd wave have become reality mario draghi has said that he will operate and act

outside of the use one for all and all for one procurement program if it gets what italy needs let's order sputnik be and see what happens if you are a peon coordination especially in health care does not work we have to be ready to act on our own and it's not only me saying this chancellor merkel told me that if the european medicines agency certifies sputnik be then ok but if it does not germany will do so itself this is normal pragmatism we have to work on the basis of european unity but if it's not achieved we have to try other ways german chancellor angela merkel has also been talking about vaccines she was speaking after a summit between the federal government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states vaccination dominating those talks and in fact local doctors here will start to be able to give out the jobs in germany at the end from the end of april now under merkel also spoke about russia's sputnik of

a vaccine and she said that whether or not it gets approval from the european medicines agency she expects the. see it being here in germany in the fight against corona virus us and also send him stuff under long as fired the russian vaccine is concerned i have held the view for some time that we should use each vaccine that is approved by the european medicines agence singh but if a new such european order were made and i have seen no indication that it will be germany would have to go it alone that is a possibility and this what we would do. as the head of the berlin branch of the german red cross i hear that many scientists from the berlin charity clinic say that the research documents the studies available about sputnik the give a positive impression vaccination is the only serious way to fight covert 19 and my demands on demand is the following we as the german bread cross are impartial and do not interfere in political issues but we would like

a non ideological decision on vaccines to be made and that everything that is scientifically based is allowed in germany and on the european market this applies to us and to me and to the sputnik v. in this sense there should be no ideological or political reasons that would dictate selective behavior and my impression is that at least here in germany there's not enough information for scientists to study it properly in recent weeks and days this is change in the most fundamental way and i hear that opinions of many doctors and pharmacists who've been working on this topic including from the eminent charity that splitting v can be trusted and that if the relevant departments fail to approve it they will lose people's trust. friday morning there were reports coming out here in germany that a facility in was being prepared as a potential site to produce sputnik v. in europe if it gets approval from the european medicines agency now the german

chancellor wasn't just talking about the sputnik vaccine while she was speaking to the press on friday evening she also talked about the astra zeneca. said she would take that astra zeneca job her self it's been a tough week for astra zeneca 20 e.u. nations and european nations suspended the use of the vaccine over potential links or concerns over potential links to blood clots in relation to those who've had the job the european medicines agency gave an extensive press conference on thursday in which they said the benefits of taking the astra zeneca vaccine far outweighed any potential risks now that saw a number almost all of those countries that had carried out the suspension of astra zeneca resume using the astra zeneca vaccine however denmark finland norway of all said they're going to hold off reintroducing it norway saying they need more information do you to several serious cases of norway you would want to thoroughly

review the situation before make a conclusion there is a real mixed state of affairs at the moment with some countries around the world taking strides in leap said when it comes to vaccinating their populations while others staring down the barrel of a 3rd wave of covert 90. u.s. president joe biden and his v.p. come or horace visited atlanta where a gunman opened fire on a number of massage parlors this week killing 8 people 6 of the victims were asian women biden and horace the nonce the atrocities and the vice president also gave her view of what's led to a rise in attacks against america's population for the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating scapegoating asian americans people with the biggest part bit's spreading this kind of hate. well while biden

and horace only hinted at who they think should shoulder some of the blame the mainstream media has been openly pointing the finger at the previous administration donald trump didn't pull the trigger in atlanta but donald trump certainly was responsible for the anger in the fear of the suspicion that exists in in great degree in this country much more so than ever in the past and it's not just the shootings in atlanta about her being lead a trump store delving a little deeper into valid aspect here sarah senior correspondent guest if it is been a tough few weeks for joe 50 days in office in the problems keep piling up fortunately and thank the polls for these even with trump gone you can still blame your problems on him the last administration left us a dismantled an unworkable system we are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly are working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the passage ministration to

put it succinctly the prior administration dismantled our nation's immigration system in its entirety. a solid year democrats and biden praised migrants you remember that don't you citizenship for millions they promised within 100 days i'm going to send to united states congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11000000 undocumented people and all of those so-called dreamers those docket kids they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country oh gosh di who could have predicted that promising millions of people potential citizenship would flood your borders with another wave of migrants more and more migrants who believed biden's populist election rhetoric and people smugglers for whom business is booming but biden apparently didn't mean everything that he said thousands of kids are still in

detention centers waiting deportation to mexico and you know what biden's white house is telling the crowds at the border who he gave so much hope to. goo way the message isn't done come now it is don't come in this way ever do it to come to the united states is still legal path nice then there's the pandemic which has ruined so much for all of us merica has been ravaged by couvade like nowhere else that is been a disaster trumps disaster if you believe biden my predecessors my brother said god love of failed order and of axes failed of all the lies the effort to administer the shots failed a set of facts centers at a certain point the trump bashing becomes too much even for the liberal press trump all his scenes operation warp speed last year under which the development of

a vaccine its production and distribution were carried out at unprecedented pace that was trump that wasn't biden and even the pundits agreed. even the media acknowledges a top administration troll is spearheading the development and procurement but president biden refuses to say the truth is the biggest scam is biden taking credit for the vaccine remember when joe biden and common harris spent months lying about not trusting the vaccine simply because president trump spearheaded operation warp speed now they're trying to take credit for it sick people or take and he agent violence that has really had its ugly head over the last year on the one hand trump did say borderline or outright offensive things about china and others i think there's no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw. during the prior administration blaming you know calling coded you know the virus or other

things. led to you know perceptions of the asian american community that are inaccurate unfair have raised. you know threatening has elevated threats against asian americans on the other you just call and trust biden's all jobs but it comes to trump baps responsible for the ads the asian violence that is also arisen in britain and europe elsewhere and how do you blame trump for a spree of attacks in atlanta as the white house hinted when police themselves say it was not racially motivated the suspect did take responsibility for the shootings he does claim that it was not racially motivated he apparently has an issue what he considers a fiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to to

to go to these places and into the temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate we're going to be honest here barden inherited a mess but fallow long are they going to keep sweeping all their problems. under the trump rug as opposed to you know try solve them especially considering that a significant amount of that mess and grime the democrats created themselves. newly published t.v. ratings in the us appear to show the post trump white house is well a bit of a turnoff the figures show that c.n.n. has lost more than a 3rd of its primetime audience since the former president left office almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers were tuning in daily between election day november 4th joe biden's an organization in january after that the numbers plummeted by 36 percent media a legal analyst line all told me the organization a new plan b. after trump left the oval office on the presidential sparring had run it's course.

it's the only reason they existed every day people would tune in to hear the anti trump rhetoric but also to listen to what insane connections they can make between everything and trump and it was it was brutal it was exciting it was it was it was interesting that's done this is just reality who wants to hear i didn't tire day a program you say wasn't that fantastic did you notice the show to chewed did you notice how great this president was when he's not and meanwhile fox and newsmax to an extent annoying and others are enjoying incredible ratings because they can turn that venom and excitement against the biden administration what i think people want to hear more than anything else is is confrontation but if somebody said we really are going to give you an honest to god of fair and balanced attack an appraisal

they would love it we live in a world now of social media of trolling of immediate reaction there's no such thing as milk toast they could have done wonders by attacking if you will anybody who deserved attacking but what they are is these are apparatchiks these are shot puppets for the democratic party and everybody knows that but now that there is no trump to attack there is nothing there. a large demonstration took place on saturday in jerusalem thank you once the israeli prime minister it happened just days before the country heads to the polls again a 4th time in just 2 years our middle east correspondent paula slayer can tell us more but to me because we can't you know nothing about me having to do it and i mean i think that the people that are not made to make it

a particular the. town. i. mean in the long they believe it came down and made the. film being told again in the beginning of. most of our neighbors maybe the minute. they make. love to him and on to them and they make. lockdown a lot of people start down the election and he's on holding that comment they make they make that next at the top may mean the polling station that will make him a policeman both. sides had been streaming the package out of the pandemic well and that he would leave between his moment and now that arafat brought 4 more peace agreements on the way and people come to us because they know that this is the real thing i deliver the. expect that's not happening and fundamentally and various

means and makes it even. reaches now people can also be bussed in from all over the country to literally impose take out the prime minister basically just find a supreme court vacancy and you know somebody could watch it and now i can't see the captors can take it that has no basis for that in fact it happened to try to solve this not organized by any political party that is monolithic gathering of the political factions and people that i mentioned across the country who are anti netanyahu and believe it's time for him to step down so the kind of slogans that have been here the kind of posters that have been called up people saying go home it's long enough you're a liar you're a cheater we've all seen people accusing him of corruption but nothing new except the amount the outpouring of an expression against the tanyard policy of barak to jerusalem. has been sworn discuss the roma to choose this ballot with former

israeli ambassador to the u.n. dunny palestinian journalist. you can watch the full discussion on ben's no-b.s. podcast on facebook a neutral. false election into use it sounds crazy and a stiff hope it will be the last this cycle for the new future so the little now he still is the leading candidate is that he could party received about it 35 seats out of 120 but what's happening is for the 1st time you have a lot of thousands for the right conservative parties that actually think the same like the prime minister on global issues and economy and social issues but they are not willing to sit with the prime minister one thing for sure the next alimentary next message to me will be much more conservative than the one we have today the left wing parties some of them will vanish some of them would become

a very small party like the label power the used to be the ruling party in the past and now they are fighting to the threshold so the conservative party would win but it doesn't mean that prime minister netanyahu will definitely form the next government it's clear that netanyahu. biggest the elephant in the room is the against him and he's trying every way to get out of it one of the ways he wants to get out of it is to stay as prime minister these really long and not clear on on whether it's sitting prime minister and in fact being being indicted is enough for a member of the cabinet to have to resign and there is no assists substance to play him for a prime minister so netanyahu has to stay in power so that he can stay out of j. . dilla head president biden admits that the u.s. is on likely to meet its deadline for pulling troops out of afghanistan and it will be next winter of the earliest that story and more after the show.

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again washington's deadline for pulling troops out of afghanistan is unlikely to be met president biden in fact the u.s. is now considering pushing the may 1st state 6 months down the road until november the toll of the near 2 decade long war on afghanistan civilians hos.

i mean and he would be either my husband was a vendor you're selling street food or the abdul hug and a bat when the explosion happened my neighbors didn't want to tell me that my husband had been killed because they saw i'm a woman with 3 paralyzed children and have heart disease to working with great difficulty it working to serve the people but eventually my neighbor came and told me that my husband had been killed in a suicide bombing it is 15 years since they came to kabul and i'm living here because of my children i searched for my husband but there was no news about him dress as until widows who are living west and me every morning when i am going out i see others living in west situations than me i become very said.

my husband was in the afghan national army before she was an employee it has been about 4 years since he was killed i have a daughter and one son my son is 13 years old my children couldn't get any educational schooling i want to say no to war there should be no killings anymore no country house children have faced mental problems and war affected my children. the for the it says that all i was sitting there with my brothers was on a bomb dropped on my house the bombardment began from years drums my brother was killed as we know no one will be left alive in this world there are a lot of people killed my 3 children were also killed i do monkeys for my country. utter heartbreak and tragedy there earlier this week moscow hosted

a meeting representatives from the afghan government and the taliban aimed at reaching a negotiated settlement and finally a comprehensive cease fire russia the us china and pakistan acted as mediators the talks resulted in a statement urging the taliban to refrain from the spring offensive the parties also call for a continuation of the peace negotiations which going in doha we spoke to one of the participants of the moscow talks who appears optimistic. on was that when the talks started to. violence will be deduced big deal that has not happened as a few act. unfortunately the war continues in all the major players. asking for sissies and up while asia and hopefully this meeting in clear messages given through this meeting to both sides will have to pass in that eidetic it is certainly complimenting the door

all on the future talks which takes place it is d.n.r. jazzing get it and it was the right if what i've done right. but if it were leads moved sites this not make the public of afghanistan and the taliban. as long as the stomach the public up on the sun is concerned i can assure you that it was very helpful in that. it will it will help us. within that country also throughout the negotiations. this month the british government on field a far reaching review of its foreign policy defense strategy and according to the document china russia are the biggest threats to london r.t. simon wright has been looking at some of the finer details.

if you have any doubt the trouble the west is having working out how to deal with china i give to you britain's hold on integrated review of security defense development foreign policy your writing purpose of this review the most cobra 2 since the cold war is to make the united kingdom stronger safer prosperous while standing up. so i've read between the lines of this report which is the most important part and i boil it down for you america is a fading power but britain will still hide behind it whenever it can the united states will be our greatest ally and a uniquely close partner in defense intelligence and security russia's named as the main threat because that was the most effective way of getting funding for more bombs and because china has some questionable autocratic tendencies and all the cash and is pretty much going to rule the world by next year britain will continue to criticize it a little bit not to want to watch britain unveil this review if you're sitting in

beijing must be a frankly bewildering experience there is no question the trial that would pose a great challenge for a loop in society such as ours but we've also worked with china where that is consistent with our values and interests boris johnson essentially saying that his response to issues like democracy in hong kong or the plight of the week is it will be empty words because that suits britain why essentially because we have a strong. drive that was divided 1000000000 pounds trying to is the 2nd largest economy in the world he's talking as if no one in china can actually hear him say he's pretty flexible on the old values thing there's a bit of money to be had some of the more confusing detail when on the one hand this review decides that britain needs. the t. to blow up the world another couple dozen times commits to

a 40 percent increase in its nuclear stockpile while at the same time we're committed to a nuclear arms reduction indeed we believe that china should be brought into. arms reduction but you literally just said about what so when britain talks about getting tough on china. blah blah blah exactly how worried should the capitalist communists in beijing be as that review was published the huff post released a recording of a meeting that. we held with his officials elise said look we should be prepared to sign trade deals with countries that don't meet the standards of the european convention on human rights nothing to worry about and china probably because every aircraft carrier the west will be another 1000 container ships picking up the i phones for christmas. a long dormant volcano sprang into life and

look at this this is friday spewing fountains of lava near the couple reykjavik now beloved covered an area of iran one square kilometer proposed no immediate danger to locals the had previously dormant for 6000 years and the last time an election took place in the golden allure of ali was over 800 years ago there's been a lot of earthquakes recently though with the country recording more than 40000 this month alone also. skeptics nationalist groups far left empty for supporters of each other on the streets of castle police moved in to push the rival groups apart as thing spiraled out of control tensions are running high ahead of an expected lockdown extension. also. tempers flare up once more over covert $1000.00 restrictions security forces

in amsterdam use water callin police dogs to break all the kreutzer the event was largely peaceful but several arrests were. now if you'd like to have your say in any of those stories why not leave a comment or 2 on our web page always good to hear what you're thinking there. boris yeltsin. go back and look at your history. all the darky flourished under a guy who is barely able to walk down the street here we have in the us somebody is cognitively impaired that's pretty common wisdom over seeing the rise of american

oligarchies assisted by 0 percent interest rates that allow for the cup the crowds . all means of production. in your wanting a special edition of going on the ground focusing on democracy in europe as in the u.k. boris johnson indicates he'll veto a referendum on scottish independence that would break up the united kingdom the e.u. has arguably been threatening democracy itself after german prison the man once you've got a loan here in spain regards as its president has had his immunity from prosecution for calling a river endemol independence revokes called wisdom or joins me now.